Enhancing the examiner's resisting force improves the reliability of manual muscle strength measurements: Comparison of a new device with hand-held dynamometry

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 679-684

  Lu, Tung Wu ^a   Hsu, Horng Chaung ^b   Chang, Ling Ying ^c   Chen, Hao Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Isometric contraction; Rehabilitation; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36849000732     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0107     Document Type: Article

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